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...counterpoint to the passage in Leviticus appears in I Corinthians XI: 14, 15: "Doth not even nature itself teach you that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." I do not mention this in condemnation of long hair. I myself have a moustache of four-weeks' growth...
Cacophonous Counterpoint. Whether or not the aggressors were listening, the committee had to contend with a cacophonous counterpoint at home. From the right came a demand by World War I Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker that the U.S. bomb North Viet Nam's ports, dams and people. "You're not fighting human beings over there," he told a Houston interviewer. "You're just fighting two-legged animals. The people are just slaves...
Author Epstein, whose 1964 book Leah was a controlled whisper of a novel, is one of those rarities in American letters-the completely rounded writer, capable of handling the counterpoint that this theme necessitates. If his method is kitchen realism (down to the whirring refrigerator), his manner is as fine as the tinkle of dining room crystal. He does not try to bomb the reader out of his mind, nor is he out to revolutionize his conscience. Rather, he tells a story with grace and wit, taking the common-or universal-experiences of life as the basis for a work...
...Scruggs banjo music, the film describes the criminal career of Bonnie. Clyde and the friends and relations they collect along the way. Their initially clumsy and comic efforts at robbing banks become increasingly bloody as the film proceeds, until the imagery of incredible violence is the only real visual counterpoint to the desolate image of the landscape. And this is violence unlike that of any other film. Instead of the crisp theatricality and well-timed effects of a movie like The Dirty Dozen, Penn forces on us the relentless destruction of the human body. Even as the audience laughs...
Coming Alive. Nonetheless, Lady Bird caroled a hopeful counterpoint as she zipped through the farms and villages of the American heartland. Noting that 71 million Americans still live in communities of 10,000 or less, she declared that "in many of these towns, the streets are coming alive with commerce and industry, old problems are being solved in new ways, and the arts are flourishing." To show just how commerce, industry and the arts are faring these days in the national heartland was one important purpose of her trip...